For Today – Agape

Below is one of my favorite worship songs of all time. It may not sound much like a worship song, but the lyrics are powerful, worship lyrics. Any genre of music can be worship.

Can we payback more than can be measured?
If we could love
If we could love
There is an amount of love
An amount of grace
Beyond all meaning
Beyond all measure
If we could even grasp it
There would be more pleasure
There is no greater love than
laying your life down for a friend
If we loved God to a teaspoon
of his overflowing cup
What would this world then see?
Our land of sorrow and turmoil
would swirl to a community of joy
Open our eyes to glisten
Open our hearts to receive
Open our mouths to smile
This is a love that none can fathom
How can we repay
Love the Lord your God
With all your heart
All your soul
All your mind
All your strength

Full Band vs Acoustic

Do you enjoy when bands make acoustic versions of their songs? Does it take away from the original art, or does it actually enhance the song? Here are full band songs, and their acoustic counterparts. What do you think? I’ll post what I think in a few days.

Lostprophets – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)

Lostprophets – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) – Acoustic

A Day To Remember – Have Faith In Me

A Day To Remember – Have Faith In Me – Acoustic

Ladies and Gentemen

Ladies:

Value yourselves. Do not see yourselves as the world sees you. See yourselves as your Father in Heaven sees you. This world is a judgmental place full of liars and scumbags. You are beautiful. You are beautiful. You are beautiful. You are a daughter of the Living God. Believe that.

Gentlemen:

Do not be scumbags. Treat ladies with the utmost respect. I know that we all, myself included, tend to objectify women. It is disgusting. It is belittling. Let’s me true men of chivalry. Let’s be true sons of God.

 

Funny.

My main defense mechanism is to try to be funny. I feel that if I can make someone laugh, they will automatically like me. It’s just what I do. I am quite quiet around people that I don’t know.

What is your defense mechanism?
How do you respond to most people in everyday life?

Nervous.

I am a nervous person. Sometimes I can hide it extremely well, but the feeling is always there. Here are some of the examples of what I see myself doing in everyday life.

I cannot maintain eye-contact. If we are ever having a conversation and I look away in the first ten seconds, don’t be offended. This is natural for me. Even while I am talking to a customer at work, I cannot maintain it for longer than maybe thirty seconds.

I get really nervous during arguments and fights. Even if I am not involved in the altercation at all, I want to disappear. And if I am involved in the argument, you will probably get nothing but head nods and “I’m sorry” from me.

Sometimes I get uncomfortable watching movies. If there is a scene where a character is doing something to make them a little nervous, I also will become nervous. It seems like the stupidest thing, but I have to just look away during some movies.

I guess the point is that I hate this about myself. My calling as a Christian is to spread the love of Christ to unbelievers, but if I don’t have the courage to speak to them, how can I effectively convey the message?

This has been on my mind recently, and I wish that I could change this about myself, and “man-up,” so-to-speak. If any of you psychology majors out there can tell me what this means and what I can do to fix it, please enlighten me.

New Blog.

Hey there. I never blog, and that’s lame. To try to get into the habit of daily or at least blogging a few times a week, I have switched to Tumblr. Check it out if you’d like.

adammcentyre.tumblr.com

Are You Freakin Kidding Me?

So it’s funny to me how Christians use the Christian f-word so abundantly. We all do it. Freakin. That’s it. Christians say freakin more than Adam Sandler drops the real f-bomb. Just saying. Have you ever noticed that too?

Rad

Rad.

It is a word that I use in excess of 100x per week. Seriously.

I like the word, but I feel that my use of it has gotten out of hand.

I noticed my friend Kyle saying it, and I thought “Man! Rad is a sweet word. I should start saying it!”

I did start saying it, and look where I am today.

People who never use the word have been using it in emails and texts to me.

I just thought that I would share my three month history of rad.

What one word phrases have you been using lately?

Awaken

So this past Saturday I went to hear my good friend Jake speak at the Awaken 2009 conference at NorthStar Church in Kennesaw. It was a great time, with Chris Huff leading worship. I saw a lot of old friends, and made some new ones!!

Here are my notes and quotes from Jake’s talk:

(keep in mind these are the shorthand that I wrote during his speech, but I think they make sense)

-”They were the cool Christian kids who didn’t dump over porta-potties.” – Jake Dudley

-More women go to church than men.

-Jesus was living, breathing, walking Love.

-As long as Jesus is being preached, it doesn’t matter what color carpet the church has, what type of pre-service music, etc…

-People talk about Jesus 2000 years later

-God sent Jesus down to Earth, and to die for the sins of men and women

-What if I, through everyone’s junk, life, etc…, just loved them the way Jesus does?

-The World says that for any problem, there is a program, pill, or person to solve it. That is crap. Jesus is the answer.

-Mark 12:28-31

-John 15:12-13

-”Sometimes leading people to Jesus is being Jesus to the people”

-Jake also talked about the Christy Nockels song “By Our Love”
-Check the lyrics here

-”If the world is supposed to know us by our love, then why do they know us for what we hate?”

Jake did a great job and so did the guys putting the conference on.

P.S. – I also bought John Mayer tickets in the parking lot right after Awaken. Pretty stoked on it. Fosho

Dear God…

Dear God,
         I know you have a plan for my life, but does Lowe’s really have to be part of it? That place sucks the happiness out of me, and I am in a terrible mood when I’m there. Isn’t there something else I could be doing?

Adam,
        You are fortunate enough to have a job my son. You are fortunate enough to have a truck that your job pays for. You are fortunate enough to have the money to pay your bills, and it comes from your job. That job is your income source, and you are fortunate enough to have what you need and more. You are blessed with this. Be grateful, not bitter.